READ AT LEDEVOIR.COM Au fil des livres et des années, l’inspecteur MacNeice — À feu nourri est déjà sa cinquième enquête — s’est taillé une place de choix sur la planète polar. Humaniste, « honnête homme » à la Guido Brunetti, cultivé et réfléchi, cet amateur de jazz et de musique classique est de surcroît un enquêteur hors pair […]
Scott was recently the guest on the Crime Writers of Canada podcast! Check out the full episode HERE: LISTEN NOW
Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is pleased to announce the Shortlists for the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. Since 1984, Crime Writers of Canada has recognized the best in mystery, crime, suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors, including citizens abroad and new residents. On behalf of […]
(taken from full article at NationalPost.com) Sharp-eyed readers of Scott Thornley’s latest roller-coaster thriller, Middlemen, will suspect it’s happening in the Ontario city of Hamilton. But as always with his books, Thornley gives the place a fictional name and scrambles the geography a bit. When it comes to crime fiction, he’s a late-flowering success story […]
The Globe and Mail lists Middlemen in their list of 10 thrillers to read this summer! Here’s what they’ve got to say about it: “Let’s just say it: Scott Thornley’s fifth mystery featuring detective superintendent MacNeice is terrific. Each scene takes place in identifiable southern Ontario sketched by an author who loves this place. We begin with […]
by Jamie Portman(Appeared in Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Vancouver Sun, Regina Leader-Post, Windsor Star, Edmonton Journal, The Beacon Herald) Canadian crime novelist lets the story lead him to its conclusion Bestselling novelist John Irving once famously observed that whenever he starts a new book, he always writes the last sentence first. […]
“With each MacNeice book, Scott Thornley takes the reader deeper into the forest of the human soul. These are, yes, detective stories, but they are also novels about a detective. For MacNeice, nearly every action undertaken in pursuit of perpetrators of horrible murders opens up vistas: of his psyche; of his love for his late […]
